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2 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Gobierno de la Provincia de San Luis / Tesorería de San Luis |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with guilloche borders and numeral '2' rosettes at left and right margins. The upper field carries the inscription 'REPUBLICA ARGENTINA' above the large bold legend 'EL GOBIERNO DE LA PROVINCIA DE SAN LUIS', with a small central vignette of a bull at left and a promise-to-pay text reading 'Pagará al portador a la vista'. The denomination 'DOS REALES' appears in an ornate panel, with 'PLATA BOLIVIANA' below, and an oval Tesorería de San Luis stamp with manuscript signatures at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse, typical of provincial Argentine emergency issues of the period, without additional vignettes or printed text. |
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San Luis was one of the poorer interior provinces of Argentina, and in 1871 its treasury was operating without access to adequate coin — a chronic problem across the interior that the national government had done little to resolve. This 2 Reales note, denominated in Bolivian silver reales rather than the Argentine peso, reflects a practical reality: Bolivian coinage circulated more freely than Argentine in the Cuyo region throughout much of the nineteenth century, and a note pegged to it would have been more readily accepted by the local population than one tied to a distant Buenos Aires standard.
The official stamp is the only security measure, which tells you a great deal about the production budget of the Tesorería de San Luis in that period.